What Are We For? Quotes

“I can't help believing that most of us want to be good citizens and that we will do all we can to fulfill our obligations once we clearly understand them.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change

“All of us have a small orbit of influence where, if we have convictions, we can stand up for them and even persuade others to join with us.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change

“We feel that our action or inaction will produce about the same result - nobody in authority will pay attention to what we think! Until we free ourselves of this inferiority complex which is nothing more than a comfortable alibi to sidestep responsibility, I do not see much chance of improving conditions either at home or abroad.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change

“Indifference, apathy, unwillingness on the part of good people to go down into the arena an fight, will give any city or any country poor government.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change

“Real loving means work, thinking of each other day in and day out, unselfishness, and effort to understand the growth of the soul and mind of the other individual, and to adjust and complement that other person day by day.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change

“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by those burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt – Timeless Wisdom from the First Lady on Activism, Courage, and Change